Phytophagous Coleoptera from Fciu. 523 



Head smooth, with ouly a few punctures near tho eyes, 

 shining, flavous or fulvous, with a deep transverse groove ; 

 antennas fuscous, the two basal joints shining flavous. Thorax 

 transverse, the sides rounded, anterior angles produced into a 

 short tubercle, surface impunctate, shining, testaceous. Elytra 

 convex, narrowly margined, disc smooth, without punctures, of 

 the same colour as the thorax, each elytron with two oblong 

 sjiots, of which one is placed on the humeral callus, the other 

 near the scutellum, and two placed transversely behind the 

 middle, not touching either the margin or the suture, violaceous, 

 more or less tinted with green. Underside piceous, tibiaj lighter, 

 abdomen testaceous. Claws swollen. 



Three specimens in my collection agree in every respect. 

 This species may be distinguished from limitata, Harold, by the 



swollen (not simple) claw joint and the impunctate elytra. 



Asphcera maculqjcnnis, n. sp. 



Ovate, convex, black ; thorax and elytra pale fuscous, the 

 latter covered with numerous irregularly shaped testaceovis spots. 

 Length 4 lines. 



Head shining, black, smooth on the vertex, with some punc- 

 tures near the eyes, the space between the latter deeply foveo- 

 late, with two distinct elongated tubercles in front ; anteume 

 as long as half the body, entirely black, the basal joint obscure 

 fulvous beneath. Thorax with the posterior margin straight, 

 the anterior semicircular, anterior angles produced into a distinct 

 tooth, surface impunctate, obscure fuscous or dark flavous. 

 Scutellum black. Elytra widened behind the middle, convex at 

 their posterior half, fuscous, extremely finely punctured and 

 covered with numerous irregular small spots, of a light testa- 

 ceous colour, distributed over the entire surface. Underside 

 and legs black, basal joint of metatarsus as long as the two 

 following joints united, claws not swollen. 



GALERUCID^. 



Diabrotica dorsalis, n. sp. 



Elongate, flavous, the first seven joints of the antonuie, two 

 submargiual stripes o;i the thorax, and the knees and tibiai black; 

 elytra rugose punctate, violaceous, the lateral margin and a dorsal 

 vitta flavous. Long. 2^ lin. 



